#sexual-content

#sexual-content

It's on the Leaving Cert syllabus so many students will be keen to see the latest adaptation Is Wuthering Heights suitable for teenagers? The film carries a 15A cert, so yes, technically, it is. But lots of things that are 15A - even those specifically aimed at teenagers like Emily in Paris - have a lot of sometimes quite graphic sex. Does that make them inappropriate?

The allegation that I discriminated against anyone is absolutely false,

The Academy pulled a complete one-eighty last year. They honored an incredibly unsexy film as the 2024 Best Picture winner (Oppenheimer), only to award a sex-work comedy-drama (Anora) in 2025 that featured multiple scenes of Best Actress winner Mikey Madison working it for the camera. I can't tell you what changed in between each Oscars ceremony, but I certainly wouldn't mind if 2026 continued to rock these awards presentations by awarding Michael B. Jordan for getting it on with a vampire in Sinners.

It's worth stressing this now, especially in light of the controversy surrounding its release on Vimeo a few months ago, where it was given the coveted Staff Picks badge (guaranteeing it thousands more views), then quickly taken down two days later for fear of its graphic content by Vimeo's Legal and Trust & Safety team for being inappropriate for younger viewers. Luckily (or not, depending on the circumstances), YouTube has very few safeguards against content.

I know what every gay guy in your life did last weekend. No, it wasn't cooking Ina Garten's stuffing recipe for Thanksgiving, listening to the new Rosalía album on repeat, or posting "like for the alt" on X. (Okay, they probably did those things too). What every gay guy did last weekend, at least those with HBO Max subscriptions, was watch Heated Rivalry, a slutty romance about two hockey players if not in love then at least in very graphic lust.